Response to "There is no fool like an old fool"

I agree with Carlags opinion to Machiavelli's quote about leaders. Machiavelli stated that "A man who wishes to make a vocation of being good at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not so good"(Machiavelli 37). I do respect the fact that a person lives his or her life in a positive way all the time and sees everything in a optimistic way. This way of life is not made for leaders of groups and large organizations. This is not to be taken in a way that leaders will sacrifice their own beliefs for the livelyhood of the organization but they might have to get their hands dirty and do what they must do in order to keep the group or organization alive. This does not apply to every leader because Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his point a great number of times even though he did not immediately succeed he kept trying and doing so by using his beliefs.